MetaFilter posts tagged with Internet and broadbandhttp://www.metafilter.com/tags/Internet+broadband
Posts tagged with 'Internet' and 'broadband' at MetaFilter.Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:12:04 -0800Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:12:04 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Because Everything Thrives in the Free Market!http://www.metafilter.com/162436/Because%2DEverything%2DThrives%2Din%2Dthe%2DFree%2DMarket
The ruling that <a href="http://hothardware.com/news/federal-court-rejects-fcc-plan-to-save-municipal-broadband">state laws trump FCC</a> efforts to expand broadband access means that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/muni-isp-forced-to-shut-off-fiber-to-the-home-internet-after-court-ruling/">Pinetops</a>' <a href="http://hothardware.com/news/appeals-court-decision-severs-nc-towns-gigabit-internet">current service</a> ends October 28, 2016. The city of Wilson, fearing jeopardizing the service they can currently legally offer, <a href="http://wraltechwire.com/wilson-s-city-council-pulling-plug-on-pinetop-fiber-expansion/16031015/">won't appeal</a>. <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Mocks-Google-Fiber-For-Seeking-Government-Favoritism-137788">Meanwhile</a>, AT&amp;T has something <a href="http://www.attpublicpolicy.com/fcc/broadband-investmentnot-for-the-faint-of-heart/">classy</a> to say about a competitor. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.162436Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:12:04 -0800juiceCakeThe new New Dealhttp://www.metafilter.com/161494/The%2Dnew%2DNew%2DDeal
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/technology/how-to-give-rural-america-broadband-look-to-the-early-1900s.html?_r=0">How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.161494Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:29:47 -0800Michele in CaliforniaCheap Internet for Low-Income American Famileshttp://www.metafilter.com/107629/Cheap%2DInternet%2Dfor%2DLowIncome%2DAmerican%2DFamiles
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/comcasts-launches-999-internet-for-low-income-families.ars">"Internet Essentials"</a> is a $10/month internet plan available to any family with one child eligible for free lunches at American public schools. <em>Any family with at least one child who qualifies for the free lunch program at public schools can subscribe to a low-speed (1.5Mbps) Comcast Internet connection for $9.95 a month. Comcast guarantees that it won't raise the price and offers the plan without equipment rental or activation fees. Subscribers also cannot have "an overdue Comcast bill or unreturned equipment," and they can't have had Comcast Internet in the last 90 days.</em>
<em>[The] Internet Essentials program was also a part of the conditions under which [Comcast] was allowed to buy NBC earlier this year. The company pledged to reach 2.5 million low income households with high speed Internet for less than $10 a month, and to sell some sort of computer for $150 or less.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.107629Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:32:37 -0800modernnomadI drank your milkshakehttp://www.metafilter.com/103491/I%2Ddrank%2Dyour%2Dmilkshake
PBS's excellent weekly news magazine, <em>Need to Know</em>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/video/video-high-fiber/9263/">explains</a> why European broadband speeds are racing ahead of the USA. Britain now has 400 broadband suppliers with service available for as little as $6/month. Bonus: Harvard's Berkman Center <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/Berkman_Center_Broadband_Final_Report_15Feb2010.pdf">reports</a> on broadband supply trends around the world. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.103491Fri, 13 May 2011 23:08:03 -0800anigbrowlInteractive Map of ISPs in the UShttp://www.metafilter.com/100897/Interactive%2DMap%2Dof%2DISPs%2Din%2Dthe%2DUS
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2011/NationalBroadbandMap_02172011.html">recently announced</a> the rollout of a <a href="http://www.broadbandmap.gov">searchable map</a>, which also offers <a href="http://www.broadbandmap.gov/technology">a nation-wide view of internet service providers with filters for various technologies</a>. The map is based on information collected from broadband providers or other data sources. A few things to note: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/138013/how-find-fastest-wireless-carrier-or-wired-internet-where-you-live-and-work">you'll see speeds listed, but not prices; and the map only shows wireless carriers who <em>own</em> their towers, not companies that utilize services from other carriers</a>. And <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2011180&cid=35305284">there incorrect inclusions and exclusions</a>.
Related:
* <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/191525/fcc_broadband_plan_faq.html">FCC Broadband Plan</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/90149/Broadband-a-plan-dnabdaorb">previously</a>)
* <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/150000-take-fcc-broadband-speed-test-in-first-week.ars">FCC broadband speed test</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/90056/Broadband-testing-courtesy-of-the-FCC">previously</a>).
* <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/94203/Global-Broadband-Statistical-Porn">Global broadband statistician porn</a> (SFW) tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.100897Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:45:20 -0800filthy light thiefChina internet stats - more than 450m usershttp://www.metafilter.com/99698/China%2Dinternet%2Dstats%2Dmore%2Dthan%2D450m%2Dusers
According to official Chinese stats, make of them what you will, <a href="http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/2011-01-19/article/42926/cnnic_china_reaches_457_mln_internet_users">there are now 457 million internet users in China</a>. They are said to include 450m who have broadband, and 303m who use mobile internet. 304m play online games, 140m use online banking, and 63m microblog. These users are estimated to spend an average of 18 hours a week online. As a benchmark, <a href="http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html">the current US population is estimated at 312m</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.99698Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:20:34 -0800philipyBroadband, a plan, dnabdaorbhttp://www.metafilter.com/90149/Broadband%2Da%2Dplan%2Ddnabdaorb
The FCC has announced its <a href="http://www.broadband.gov/download-plan/">National Broadband Plan</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.90149Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:11 -0800pjernWelcome to Google, Kansas.http://www.metafilter.com/89785/Welcome%2Dto%2DGoogle%2DKansas
"For the month of March 2010, the city of Topeka will be known as <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/02/google.kansas.topeka/index.html">Google, Kansas</a>." Mayor Bill Bunten says the proclamation is an attempt to <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/190601/topeka_thats_google_kansas_to_you.html">stand out from the crowd</a>, as cities around the United States have until March 26 to tell Google they're interested in participating in the <a href="http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi">Fiber for Communities </a>program, part of the company's recently announced plans to build a series of superfast broadband networks across the country [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/89108/Google-will-soon-own-us">previously on MetaFilter</a>]. Other cities are trying to get Google's attention, but Duluth, Minnesota, has <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0304/Duluth-one-ups-Google-Kansas-in-bid-for-super-fast-Internet">upped the ante </a>by pledging to name its firstborn sons "Google Fiber" and its firstborn daughters "Googlette Fiber" in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03pCyixPuws">video</a><small> [YouTube, 3:34]</small> spoofing Topeka's efforts. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.89785Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:13:58 -0800amymsThe Internet in Canada's far northhttp://www.metafilter.com/76522/The%2DInternet%2Din%2DCanadas%2Dfar%2Dnorth
<a href="http://rankin-inlet.blogspot.com/2008/09/north-and-internet.html">Using the Web to buy a carton of milk in Nunavut.</a> Satellite Internet in Nunavut (Canada's newest territory – <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/60912/" title="MeFi archives: White Stripes' Canadian tour to cover every province and territory">the White Stripes played there</a>) is slow and has such draconian bandwidth caps (2GB a month) that nobody downloads audio or video. But they use it for every kind of online banking and E-commerce in a territory with barely any retail stores. Revel in the irony of listening to a podcast interview (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/11/episode_53_november_12_15_2008.html" title="CBC Spark blog">regular Web page</a> with links to high- and low-bandwidth MP3) that Nunavummiut could barely justify downloading. (That's where the carton of milk is mentioned.) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76522Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:46:53 -0800joeclarkLOLTELECOMZ!http://www.metafilter.com/63081/LOLTELECOMZ
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/docs/shooting_the_messenger.pdf"><i>Shooting the Messenger</i></a> (PDF). A new report from <a href=http://www.freepress.net/index.php>Free Press</a> "dispels the many <a href=http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2007/07/19/new-report-busts-telco-myths-about-our-internet-health/>myths manufactured by the telecommunications industry to excuse America's poor broadband performance</a> compared to the rest of the world." tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.63081Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:23:51 -0800homunculusSignificant insignificanthttp://www.metafilter.com/51354/Significant%2Dinsignificant
New Zealand is a <a href="http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/05A038B7A5CEC265CC25714D00680A4B">backwater when it comes to high speed internet</a>.
Today <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10380108">the government has done something about it.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51354Wed, 03 May 2006 03:02:57 -0800Samuel FarrowThe End of the Internet?http://www.metafilter.com/48882/The%2DEnd%2Dof%2Dthe%2DInternet
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester">The End of the Internet?</a> "The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online." tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48882Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:57:49 -0800allkindsoftimeBBC on broadbandhttp://www.metafilter.com/44635/BBC%2Don%2Dbroadband
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4187036.stm">The BBC announces plans to make its TV channels available on the internet.</a> As you already know, you can already <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/">listen to all BBC radio channels</a> live and view news clips and some <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/">news programmes</a>. Now the BBC has ambitions to expand its internet offer even further. Starting next year, on demand radio and tv content will be available through MyBBCPlayer, with the past seven days of programmes, along with live streaming of BBC tv channels (apparently to be restricted to UK viewers only) and access to the archives. Plans also include the ability to purchase <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1447649.htm">music downloads</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.44635Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:44:56 -0800funambulistThe end of "Can you here me now?"http://www.metafilter.com/41211/The%2Dend%2Dof%2DCan%2Dyou%2Dhere%2Dme%2Dnow
<a href="http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=qw1113368761396B232&amp;setid=1&amp;sectid=31&amp;url=iol&amp;vne=0&amp;csect=SciTech">Robot planes may make phone towers obsolete</a> <em>"...it's a "Stratellite", and its makers believe it will revolutionise the broadband and wireless industry; if it ever gets off the ground.
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Wisconsin communications company Sanswire on Tuesday unveiled its almost-finished prototype of a hard-framed, unmanned airship designed to fly in the stratosphere 21km above the earth and send broadband and cellphone signals to an area the size of Texas."</em>
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This in my opinion is an example of truly innovative technology. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41211Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:32:48 -0800jaydedxBroadband vs Dialuphttp://www.metafilter.com/35140/Broadband%2Dvs%2DDialup
There are now more home internet users <a href=http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6011826>using broadband than dialup in the U.S.</a> - Does this mean that web designers will continue down the same path as some programmers and create bloated code? Are the days of trying to be efficient and keeping pages less than 70k a thing of the past? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35140Mon, 23 Aug 2004 05:08:24 -0800tomplus2FBI adds to wiretap wish listhttp://www.metafilter.com/31786/FBI%2Dadds%2Dto%2Dwiretap%2Dwish%2Dlist
<a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5172948.html?tag=nefd_top">Proposal to have companies rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police</a> "A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police. The FBI's request to the Federal Communications Commission aims to give police ready access to any form of Internet-based communications. If approved as drafted, the proposal could dramatically expand the scope of the agency's wiretap powers, raise costs for cable broadband companies and complicate Internet product development." Read more about the FBI's proposal at Cnet.com.
or <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4515410/">MSNBC.</a> But where is the actual proposal? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31786Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:59:08 -0800fluffycreatureThe quest for the last milehttp://www.metafilter.com/21788/The%2Dquest%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Dlast%2Dmile
<a href="http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&amp;doc_id=24713">Stringing broadband connections through the city sewer system</a> is a dirty smelly job but something has to do it! Check out the companies and the sewer-bots that are doing this dirty work. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21788Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:30:21 -0800thedailygrowlBuy SBC now.http://www.metafilter.com/19159/Buy%2DSBC%2Dnow
<a href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Internet%20News&amp;touch=1&amp;s1=blk&amp;tp=ad_topright_technology&amp;T=markets_fgcgi_content99.ht&amp;s2=blk&amp;bt=blk&amp;s=APVl_PBZiVS5TLiBQ">Buy SBC now.</a> "In order to make sure the economy grows, we must bring the promise of broadband technology to millions of Americans,'' Bush said at a White House-sponsored economic forum. "Government at all levels should remove hurdles that slow the pace of deployment.''<br>
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Is the <a href="http://www.usta.org/">USTA</a> happy about this type of talk? <a href="http://media.usta.org/pr/pressRelease.cfm?id=126">You bet</a>. They would like to see passage of S.2430, also known as the <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:S.2430:">Broadband Regulatory Parity Act of 2002</a>. Others <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/viewpoints/editorials/020622dsl.shtml">wouldn't</a>. <a href="http://www.consumerfed.org/backpage/070102_broadband_release.html">Some</a> have <a href="http://www.consumerfed.org/backpage/ispstudy070102.pdf">studies</a> (300K PDF) that argue <a href="http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=sbc+vz+q+bls&d=v1">local phone companies</a> are slowing the growth of DSL for anti-competitive reasons.<br>
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Also, notice how the President said "bring the promise of broadband technology to millions of Americans", not <b>all</b> Americans? Might have something to do with the fact that <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=26622">rural DSL is really, really expensive to provide</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.19159Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:39:56 -0800dglynnFBI enforcing the bandwidth CAP. http://www.metafilter.com/18151/FBI%2Denforcing%2Dthe%2Dbandwidth%2DCAP
<a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&amp;Date=20020627&amp;Category=NEWS03&amp;ArtNo=106270073&amp;Ref=AR">FBI enforcing the bandwidth CAP. </a> With <a href="http://www.rbua.org/">broadband caps </a>spreading across North America, I wonder if we will see more stories like this, as users find they want to use more than 4 to 6 gigs a month. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.18151Mon, 01 Jul 2002 01:19:48 -0800Iax75% of dial-up users are satisfied with their current speeds.http://www.metafilter.com/16879/75%2Dof%2Ddialup%2Dusers%2Dare%2Dsatisfied%2Dwith%2Dtheir%2Dcurrent%2Dspeeds
<a href="http://www.ispworld.com/isp/newsletter/executive/strategy_050202.htm">75% of dial-up users are satisfied with their current speeds.</a> This opinion piece states that, out of those people that have not yet made the switch to broadband, only 25% of them even <i>would</i> if available.
Thus, little ISP's shouldn't worry about losing dial up business so much anymore.
Can the Internet continue to evolve at 56K speeds? tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.16879Fri, 03 May 2002 12:43:23 -0800WolfDaddyhttp://www.metafilter.com/12143/
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2823122,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01" target=self><b>Dump broadband</b></a>? *gasp* Well, according to this ZDNet article, it's a movement. With price hikes and a souring economy, some people can't justify the cost. Could you let it go? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.12143Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:05:29 -0800hotdoughnutsnowAOL may buy AT&T broadbandhttp://www.metafilter.com/10010/AOL%2Dmay%2Dbuy%2DATT%2Dbroadband
<a href="http://www.fool.com/news/breakfast/2001/breakfast010910.htm">AOL may buy AT&T broadband</a> in a deal that could allow them to own the browser, net access, data pipes, and content for a vast majority of internet usage and users. How far will AOL/TW go to control any and all forms of media? Are hearings to break the company up far off? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.10010Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:47:39 -0800mathowieAOL's walled garden.http://www.metafilter.com/3907/AOLs%2Dwalled%2Dgarden
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3302689.html?tag=st.ne.1002.bgif.ni">AOL's walled garden.</a> Anyone who doesnt think that AOL will only link to AOL/Time Warner properties in the broadband future is fooling themselves. tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.3907Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:45:11 -0800owillis